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RIDE REVIEW I 2022 TRIUMPH SPEED TRIPLE RR P84 game plan, Triumph's Chief Product Officer, Steve Sargent, have continued to forge the company's distinctly individual model strategies together with Triumph's head of engineering Stuart Wood, 57, a 35-year company veteran who joined Bloor's R&D team in 1987, three years before the debut of the first bikes bearing the revived British brand's historic badge. "We wanted to build on the basis of the Speed Triple 1200 RS we launched earlier racer, expressed in a modern context." It has indeed been quite a while since Triumph last featured an outright sport bike in its range, not since the 2006 demise of the much-loved Daytona 955i launched in 1997, in fact. This was a good bike with heaps of personality thanks to its then unique-sounding three-cylinder motor, albeit not quite up to its Japanese rivals in terms of outright performance. The Daytona 675 was a middleweight once again to go its own way. Whereas when they originally created the Speed Triple back in 1994, Triumph's R&D team simply deleted the bodywork from the three-cylinder Daytona 900 sport bike and changed the handlebars to produce a stripped-out sport bike, this time around they've done the opposite, and added a frame- mounted café-racer-style half-fairing and fitted clip-ons to make a semi-streamlined ultra- bike out of a naked hotrod. (Right) It's not a full-on sport bike but the sporty ethos are clear in the new RR. (Far right) The five-inch TFT is one of the biggest units in the 1000cc-plus sport bike market. Just because you've now got clip-on bars doesn't mean you can't travel with your RR. this year, which has been an immediate success with 3900 examples purchased in just the first six months," says Wood. "So, we've aimed at combining the engagement and agility plus the pinpoint handling of a 765 Street Triple, with the performance and attitude of the latest generation Speed Triple 1200 RS, clothed in the styling of a traditional-type British café contender, not a 1000cc-plus beast, and Sargent & Co. have focused on expanding their offerings in the Adventure bike market, while seemingly ignoring the go-faster customer. Not anymore, though. But rather than tackle the superbike market head-on by trying to compete directly with Fireblades, Panigales, R1s and the like, Triumph has decided But beneath the RR's sleek, airy-looking styling with the single LED headlamp lies the identical cast aluminum chassis of the 1200 RS, as well as its engine in an identical state of tune. So the Speed Triple 1200 RR is essentially a 1200 RS with the addition of a half-fairing, an altered riding position with clip- on handlebars, and Ohlins Smart EC 2.0 OBTI electronically-